Table 6

Multivariate decomposition of child and maternal factors associated with full immunisation inequality between rural and urban residence

Characteristics	Difference due to characteristics (E)		Difference due to coefficients (C)
Characteristics	Coefficient	Percentage (%)	Coefficient	Percentage (%)
% total explained disparity		76.47		23.53
Child factors
Child’s sex
Male	0.00018	0.16	0.00576	4.78
Female	0.00019	0.16	−0.00578	−4.80
Birth order
1	−0. 00880***	7.31	0.00483	4.01
2	−0. 00484***	4.03	0.00788	6.55
3	−0. 00013	−0.11	−0.00091	−0.76
4	−0. 00001	−0.01	0.0198	1.65
5	−0. 00143**	1.18	−0.00187	−1.56
6+	−0. 01799***	14.94	−0.01544	−12.82
Maternal factors
Age
15–19	0.00121***	1.01	−0.00147	−1.22
20–24	0.00015**	0.13	−0.01200*	−9.97
25–29	−0. 00032	−0.27	−0.00422	−3.51
30–34	0.00031**	0.26	−0.00221	−1.84
35–39	−0. 00014**	−0.12	0.00263	2.18
40–44	0.00015	0.12	−0.00289	−2.40
45–49	0.00135*	−1.12	0.00206*	1.70
Education
No education	0.00223	1.85	0.00364	−3.03
Primary	−0. 00670***	−5.57	−0.01793*	14.89
Secondary	−0. 00569	−4.73	0.00378	−3.14
Higher	0.00241	−2.00	−0.00015	0.12
Wealth quintile
Poorest	−0.00218	−1.81	0.02299**	19.10
Poorer	0.01464*	12.16	−0.01040	−8.64
Poor	0.00297	2.47	−0.00878	−7.29
Richer	−0.00294	−2.44	−0.00748**	−6.21
Richest	0.04304***	35.74	0.00194*	1.61
Occupation
Not working	−0.00027	−0.23	−0.01306***	10.85
Working	−0.00027	−0.23	0.03056***	−25.38
Distance to health facility
Not a big problem/no problem	−0.00957***	7.94	−0.00217	1.79
A big problem	−0.00957***	7.94	0.00197	−1.63
Sex of household head
Male	−0.00042	−0.35	−0.01640*	13.61
Female	−0.00042	−0.35	−0.00414*	−3.44
Health insurance
No	−0.00097	−0.81	−0.08356***	69.39
Yes	−0.00097	−0.81	−0.00469***	−3.89

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.